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Word: floorful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only the little things nag at me. The person on my floor freshman year that took six showers a day, for instance. I didn't see a need to berate him about his actions at the time, even though the constant steam was causing ceiling tiles to fall and toilet paper to become water-logged. I was able to understand that he somehow always needed...

Author: By John J. Murphy, | Title: A Freudian Interpretation of Harvard Life | 3/3/1988 | See Source »

...House Speaker George Keverian (D.-Everett) quelled calls for postponement when he took the podium for a rare floor speech and announced, "I want this bill to pass. I want this week to be one we remember as long as we live--one in which we faced the challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts House Passes Health Bill In Precedent-Setting Boost for Dukakis | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

Felsway workers on the sixth floor of the Sheraton refused to comment on their jobs yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Hands Out Flyers | 2/23/1988 | See Source »

...survivor of courted hardships and invited dangers spends most of his time in northwestern Kenya, near the village of Maralal. There, TIME Correspondent James Wilde found Thesiger living simply in a mud- caulked house with a distant view of the Great Rift Valley escarpment. The shelter has a concrete floor, wire-mesh windows, no electricity and no well. There is a separate sleeping hut that the author shares with up to 15 villagers and tribal friends who, he notes, "snore like elephants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Just Before the Sands Ran Out THE LIFE OF MY CHOICE | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

Among the lovely effects that the children of Calgary kept secret for weeks, even from their folks, were the moving pictures they formed on the stadium floor, first a snowflake, then a hockey game, a luge run, a dove. Scrambling to their stations, the ice blue snowsuits skipped and danced and punched the air with their sleeves. Meanwhile, the audience of athletes swayed and clapped, and laughed along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Wonderful Whoop Of Good Will | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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